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To think Michelle Keegan has incredible genes

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namechangeagain4 · 22/03/2025 23:17

I mean, her mum is nice looking, for sure. But Michelle is next level!

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14510279/Michelle-Keegans-mother-Jackie-silence-birth-grandchild.html

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ThatPunnyPeachFatball · 23/03/2025 11:43

She’s had a lot of work done, although she’s had it done quite subtlety over the years and hasn’t gone overboard. She knows her angles too, she’s very pretty but I don’t agree that’s it’s all down to her genes.

SomethingMorethanthis · 23/03/2025 11:42

ZebedeeDougalFlorence · 23/03/2025 11:39

Nah. Cheryl Cole was very beautiful - with those doe eyes and dimples.

I agree Cheryl Cole was beautiful and hadn't changed as much when she got to her 30s.

BatchCookBabe · 23/03/2025 11:42

ProfessionalPirate · 23/03/2025 10:38

I assume this is some kind of fishing or joke post? MK’s current face is a product of plastic surgery, cosmetic enhancements, and a shit load of makeup and contouring. I don’t think she looks bad but she does look very plastic and fake to me. I’m surprised she’s managing to cling onto an acting career to be honest.

There are so many women out there that really are naturally beautiful. I’m surprised you’ve picked MK out of all of those 🤔

Yeah, in Our Girl and Ten Pound Poms she looked weird, because she was meant to be a soldier in Our Girl, and a woman in the early 1950s in Ten Pound Poms. Her face looked so much out of place in Ten Pound poms. No-one had bloody botox and fillers then! And would a female soldier really be pootling around with a full face of make up and fillers and botox? Daft really.

BatchCookBabe · 23/03/2025 11:41

PuppyMonkey · 23/03/2025 11:28

I know I’m in the minority here, but I actually don’t think she looks so very different to her Corrie days tbh. People gasping “She looks nothing like she used to..” - come off it you lot. Grin

Come off it YOU! She looks like a different woman!

To think Michelle Keegan has incredible genes
SomethingMorethanthis · 23/03/2025 11:41

Movinghouseatlast · 23/03/2025 11:36

She was very pretty naturally so I woukd think she must have been very insecure to have had all those proceedures at such a young age. So I feel quite sorry for her in that respect.

Im not sure if many women can be so slim without severely restricting what they eat/ exercising a huge amount so I ferl sorry for her in that respect too. The pressure to stay that slim must be enormous and have a constant impact on your life.

Michelle Keegan was a soap actor and got very lucky. Shes no Judi Dench in the acting department ( as someone else said she basically plays one character with not a huge amount of depth) so again the pressure to keep a high profile and keep getting the roles must be huge. Its a dog eat dog profession. Look at how many women end up.back in Eastenders having tried to find the level.of fame Michelle Keegan has maintained for many years now. It doesn't just land in your lap.

I heard her once say that she still has treats and the odd Chinese take away etc. She says she will just go to the gym the next day and work out, and eats very healthily the rest of the time.

OpenOliveCat · 23/03/2025 11:40

ZebedeeDougalFlorence · 23/03/2025 11:20

"Can we really not find anything more interesting to say about her?"

Anyone?

Why, this thread is about how she looks?

ZebedeeDougalFlorence · 23/03/2025 11:39

cramptramp · 23/03/2025 08:22

She’s from the Cheryl Cole school of good genes. Both were pretty girls when young, I remember Michelle when she started in Coronation st, and I thought she was good looking then. But as the years have gone by, money, grooming, and a bit of cosmetic surgery have made her beautiful. The same thing happened with Cheryl Cole.

Nah. Cheryl Cole was very beautiful - with those doe eyes and dimples.

whiteswan87 · 23/03/2025 11:38

megamother · 23/03/2025 11:23

Also, as an actress she seems very one dimensional. She can’t seem to be anything but a serious, straight talking, boss woman with problems. I’ve never seen her be funny, or let loose, use a different accent etc!

I agree. I think she's massively overrated as an actress.

DramaDog · 23/03/2025 11:36

What a horrible thread which was no doubt the aim by mentioning good genes when it’s obvious she has had procedures. Posters have said the following

She has unfortunate ears.

She looks like a chav.

She's married to that thick cunt, imagine having that as your baby's father.

Her ears really stick out.

Mark Wright is pointless.

Her ears seem very large and stick out a bit.

And mumsnet leave comments like this up. I thought mumsnet didn’t allow personal attacks? And mumsnets tagline is ‘making parents lives easier’, I’m sure this will make their lives feel great if they read her for advice being new parents. And to everyone who has had a child bullied and upset due to comments about their ears, I’m sure it’s helping them too right?

Movinghouseatlast · 23/03/2025 11:36

She was very pretty naturally so I woukd think she must have been very insecure to have had all those proceedures at such a young age. So I feel quite sorry for her in that respect.

Im not sure if many women can be so slim without severely restricting what they eat/ exercising a huge amount so I ferl sorry for her in that respect too. The pressure to stay that slim must be enormous and have a constant impact on your life.

Michelle Keegan was a soap actor and got very lucky. Shes no Judi Dench in the acting department ( as someone else said she basically plays one character with not a huge amount of depth) so again the pressure to keep a high profile and keep getting the roles must be huge. Its a dog eat dog profession. Look at how many women end up.back in Eastenders having tried to find the level.of fame Michelle Keegan has maintained for many years now. It doesn't just land in your lap.

kitchentablegardentable · 23/03/2025 11:35

Oh come on now.

she has obviously never been unattractive, but she’s a fairly normal looking pretty girl who has had a lot of work done.

she does obviously look after herself physically and is very fit, toned and healthy and good for her - her body is in great shape.

But no, I don’t think she genes are anything special.

PuppyMonkey · 23/03/2025 11:34

Oops I think I can’t post pix, oh well.

PuppyMonkey · 23/03/2025 11:33

This is her in Corrie. 21 Michelle Keegan returns to Coronation Street after six years away ... Corrie Michelle

She’s not changed THAT much imho.

XWKD · 23/03/2025 11:32

She looks like a generic minor celebrity.

She used to be very nice looking when she had her original face.

Petuniaspetal · 23/03/2025 11:32

Porcelainpig · 23/03/2025 11:05

The general consensus I get from this thread is yes she is beautiful, but she has had a lot of surgery and non-surgical procedures. I don't think that's vile or unkind, it is just being honest about how she has got that beauty. I think she's stunning too, but it's a bit unfair to try and convince people it is all genes and taking care of herself, particularly for other women who are feeling insecure about their looks.

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Im a bit dubious about the OPs intent here. Most people know she and probably every other celeebrity has had treatments of some kind. Most women, especially women in the public eye, have had something done, be it eyebrows, nails, fake tan or surgery. Alot (not all) women would have more done if they had the money to do it.

I don't think MK is trying to con people into believing differently. The OP only had to do a quick Google search to discover that she wasn't entirely au naturale. I think she looks great and hopefully MK doesn't go too far as she gets older.

Lots of she ' looks fake ' comments....but most women I know either have fake tan, makeup, nails, hair ( coloured) , a bit of botox, padded bra, high heels, ...so where is the line drawn on fake ? ( BTW myself and my friends don't do all these things, theyre are about as low key as they come, but have some of these tweaks) .

Oldglasses · 23/03/2025 11:30

Arraminta · 23/03/2025 11:05

Better to be beautifully fake than naturally ugly.

She wasn't ugly, far from it.
Ugly is as ugly does.

Oldglasses · 23/03/2025 11:28

I prefer her 'before' look - it's natural and girl-next-door pretty. She now looks like any woman who was reasonably good looking beforehand who has had vast amounts of work done!
It's sad that good looking women do this to themselves and look 'worse' - I just don't get it! Would've loved to have been good looking myself, it would've made my life so much easier, maybe if cosmetic surgery was 'normal' 30 years ago or so I would've had work done (nose job at least), but that would be to make myself look nice, not in to some clone!

gillefc82 · 23/03/2025 11:28

Allthatwegotisthispalebluedot · 23/03/2025 09:50

I am so so so so glad I have never heard my husband express a negative opinion of another woman’s looks. I think my vagina would clamp shut for ever and never reopen.

He is a better man than your husband @gillefc82 for this reason. I hope your husband looks like a young Bruce Springsteen (the most attractive man in the world to me!) if he’s so confident he can make critical remarks about the way women look. I bet he fucking doesn’t, though.

Sorry, I’ve already had one back on forth on this thread with someone who took exception to my DH simply recounting his experience of his night to his wife, not doing that again.

Personally, I find the term “vagina clamping shut” more distasteful than what he said but hey horses for courses!

PuppyMonkey · 23/03/2025 11:28

I know I’m in the minority here, but I actually don’t think she looks so very different to her Corrie days tbh. People gasping “She looks nothing like she used to..” - come off it you lot. Grin

SomethingMorethanthis · 23/03/2025 11:24

RitaAndFrank · 23/03/2025 11:20

100% this. Women like MK are basically saying that their own natural beauty is not good enough and all this does is raise the bar for other women who will never look like that without the means to do so. At the same time we’re trying to teach our children that they are good enough. She will have to have some interesting conversations with her own daughter on this one day, when the daughter is old enough to notice the complete difference in her before and after photos and I wonder how she’ll play it.

If MK's daughter looks like her as she grows, I hope she knows that she is enough, and doesn't feel the need to have plastic surgery like her Mum. Hopefully she'll be against it like KP's daughter. Although as she gets older even she may change her mind; hopefully not.

megamother · 23/03/2025 11:23

Also, as an actress she seems very one dimensional. She can’t seem to be anything but a serious, straight talking, boss woman with problems. I’ve never seen her be funny, or let loose, use a different accent etc!

Mylittlebobble · 23/03/2025 11:23

RitaAndFrank · 23/03/2025 11:20

100% this. Women like MK are basically saying that their own natural beauty is not good enough and all this does is raise the bar for other women who will never look like that without the means to do so. At the same time we’re trying to teach our children that they are good enough. She will have to have some interesting conversations with her own daughter on this one day, when the daughter is old enough to notice the complete difference in her before and after photos and I wonder how she’ll play it.

I'm at the age where I could be thinking about botox but it's being a role model to my daughter that stops me. No judgement towards others who make different choices. I don't want my daughter mucking about with her face so I have to walk the walk too.

megamother · 23/03/2025 11:21

Sorry I haven’t read the comments but I have to disagree that she has incredible genes. She has a lot of money and she’s spent time and money on her figure and hair and skin etc. she’s also most definitely had Botox, fillers, teeth etc. She’s just pretty I guess!

SomethingMorethanthis · 23/03/2025 11:21

BatchCookBabe · 23/03/2025 09:54

Nobody is being VILE. Just stating facts. Sure Michelle has always been a cute girl. But to suggest that how she looks now (stunning) is down to good genes (as the OP did,) is both farcical, and plain and simple incorrect ... It's fillers, botox, cosmetic procedures, lots of make up, and a great stylist. It is very little to do with 'genetics.'

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You know, she seems really down to earth. I bet she would say this herself; I don't think MK would want young girls to think this is genetic.

ZebedeeDougalFlorence · 23/03/2025 11:20

"Can we really not find anything more interesting to say about her?"

Anyone?

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